On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
With Facebook all set to unveil Geo-location to their status updates in April, Twitter has gone ahead and started rolling out their new feature. This feature has already started rolling out to a number of users. How this works is when you login to your account there is a prompt asking you to 'Tweet Your Location' you can either choose 'Turn Location On' or choose 'Not Now'. If you choose to turn your location on Twitter will use Google gears to find your location and a small pin icon will appear beside your Tweet to tell other users your location. The good thing is users aren't forced into this service and it is only an opt-in. An original post by Sociolatte